Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources (Ukraine)
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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 9 December 2010 |
| Preceding agency |
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| Jurisdiction |
 Ukraine |
| Headquarters | 35, Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivskyi street, Kiev [1] |
| Employees | 241 (2016) |
| Minister responsible |
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| Parent agency | Cabinet of Ministers |
| Child agencies |
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| Website | Official website |
Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Міністерство екології та природних ресурсів України) is the main authority in the system of central government responsible for ecological monitoring and development of the country.
History
This government institution was established back in 1967 as the State Committee of Nature Protection. In 1978 it was merged into the All-Union State Committee under the same name centered in Moscow. Following declaration of independence, the state committee was reorganized into the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine. In 1995-2000 the ministry also supervised the nuclear safety as Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety of Ukraine. In 2000 it switched to its current name until 2003 and recovered it again in 2010. In 2003-2010 it was the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Ukraine.
Structure
The ministry is headed by minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, first deputy, and other deputies to assist the minister. Ministry electts several state administrations representatives to coordinate operation of selected government companies.
Central Body
- Minister
- State agencies
- Administration of organizational-analytical support to Minister
- Control-Revisionary Section
- Collegiate of Ministry
- First Deputy
- Department of State Ecological Policy and International Actions
- Legal Department
- Section in relationship with press media and public
- Administration in property, job security, material-technical and informational support
- Chief Specialist in Mobilization
- Division of controls and checks in execution of acts and decrees of higher bodies of state power
- Division of regime-secret actions
- Deputy - Head of Central Body
- Department of Ecological Security
- Department of Economics and Finances
- Administration of State Ecological Monitoring
- Section of state expertise
- Section of human resources
- Section of accounting and financial report
- Division of tender procedures
- Deputy
- Department of Conservation Affairs
- Department in Security of Natural Resources and Eco-Network
State agencies
- State Service of Geology and Resources (official website if inaccessible )
- Nadra Ukrainy (official website)
- State Agency of Water Resources (official website)
- State Agency of Ecological Investments (official website)
- State Ecological Inspection (official website)
Other institutions
- Ukrainian science-research institute of ecological problems, Kharkiv (official website)
- Ukrainian science center of sea ecology (Odessa) (official website)
List of ministers
| Name of Ministry | Name of minister | Term of Office | |
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| Start | End | ||
| State Committee in Nature Protection | Boris Voltovsky | ||
| Dina Protsenko | |||
| Viktor Filonenko | |||
| Ministry of Environmental Protection | Yuriy Shcherbak | ||
| Yuriy Kostenko | |||
| Ministry of Environmental Protection and Nuclear Safety | |||
| Vasyl Shevchuk | |||
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | Ivan Zayets | ||
| Serhiy Kurykin | |||
| Vasyl Shevchuk | |||
| Serhiy Polyakov | |||
| Ministry of Environmental Protection | |||
| Pavlo Ihnatenko | |||
| Vasyl Dzharty | |||
| Heorhiy Filipchuk | |||
| Viktor Boiko | |||
| Mykola Zlochevsky | |||
| Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources | |||
| Eduard Stavytsky | |||
| Oleg Proskuryakov | |||
| Andriy Mokhnyk | |||
| Ihor Shevchenko | |||
| Serhiy Kurykin | |||
| Hanna Vronska | |||
| Ostap Semerak (acting) | 14 April 2016 | ||
See also
References
- ↑ "Official website of the Ministry. Contact Us". 2017.
- ↑ New Cabinet formed in Ukraine, UNIAN (14 April 2016)